New PC (Well in Dec hopefully)

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If I could I would have but it is being built for me so I am happy with them and judging the benchmarks I've seen they will be more than adequate for me

Fair comment on the HDD but I have this obsession that all of them must be the same no idea why but my brain just works that way I am sure I can play about with the settings and get that sorted out with the hdd as for the sound-card I am sure the system builder will sort that out when they build it. I don't trust myself with a machine like this to build it myself. Done plenty of air cooled rigs but liquid cooling is something I feel is better left to people who know how to do it and have had practise at the art too not me who has no idea!

The system builder called me today have had to change my choice of graphics cards to 2x GTX 580's at no extra cost to me. Makes sense I guess with the fact the other three could have had potential heat issues and I'd feel happier that way. Anyway they seemed genuinely helpful.....

Better not be an unknown manufacturer for the GTX's. I spent a fair amount of time searching who was better and offered the best support. So I went with eVGA

I'm certainly not up to speed on desktop hardware, but have recently spent a similar amount (of my employer's money) on a database server. Which serves 200 concurrent users and will run 24/7 for the next 3-5 years. It doesn't have a graphics card though.

That said, there is utility value in having a computer now, and not in a few years time when it is cheap. The machine I bought as a research student was by today's standards poorly spec-ed, expensive and soon obsolete. But I needed a computer then.

I have a pile of sun servers at home which I bought for under £100 on ebay because I needed to show some software I was writing operating on SPARC Solaris. Their purchase cost a few years previous - over £10k each. They would still be viable machines if it wasn't for their huge power consumption (my production servers are in a data centre where power is at a premium) and tiny SCSI disks.

I've no idea whether this machine is value for money or whether its power is appropriate for your needs. But I hope you enjoy it and it serves you well.

Now evaluate pi to fifty thousand decimal places. That was the first thing I did on getting my hands on a proper computer at university.

They will be getting me the cards and they are made by who you mention! Ironic but true was told that on the phone as well so I am fairly confident these are people who know what they are doing!

Do we get some photos of this monster when it's complete...?

Don't see why not with putting some photos up on here I have to take some of it being unboxed as the maker does this to ensure it was properly transited to me. So yeah can put some up...

Sorry for my lack of updates. The system is on it's way to me tonight and I am really looking forward to the unpacking and setting up tomorrow morning and switching it on for the first time. At the moment it all seems a little unreal that I am getting this thing and that the very long wait for it is finally over. I also am going to get right back into my old habit of PC gaming which I have missed a lot as I've not had a machine capable to really step up to my high end gaming tasks and tomorrow that's all about to change. I will post some photos of it here in due course. I feel like a little kid and it's ironic it's coming the 1st of Dec!

Correction on that they are made by Asus who have also made the motherboard I think that's good enough and I have read up on them extensively and it would seem they have had a good write up on most of the reviews it was them or the brand you mentioned still it's going to be interesting times for me on the morrow.

Have had it two days now and it's a real monster!! I am so in love with it. Best £4k I have spent in my life.....